Ummm... why exactly does the app have to download and re-create the whole MtGox homepage every 15 seconds?We're talking of a 20 kB file here, that's just under 5 MB worth of unnecessary bandwidth and disk writes per hour or 1.7 GB per month assuming the PC is running 12/7.That's sloppy engineering if I ever saw one and I'm sure MtGox doesn't think much of it either.Surely, you could get away with much less data?

The only good thing I can say is that ObiWan didn't try to grab the honeypot wallet.dat I prepared

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I've just released a version that addresses this issue. It still updates every 15 seconds but now only downloads the relevant data using the MtGox API (approximately 180 bytes per refresh vs 20k previously, about 100 times less!)

And it still doesn't grab wallet.dat files lying around

See top post for the download page.

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How about a version capable of a "single" mode where it downloads the data, displays it for a couple of seconds and exits?That would allow ObiWan to be launched via the extra keys of various "multimedia" keyboard layouts.Just add a commandline parameter for that.

Also, I'd prefer to dedicate tilde (~) rather than CapsLock to display the exchange rate.